It looks like a problem with the kernel patch. Unless you reversed the patch that came with love-sources and repatched with the new one, it won't work I dont think. Let me know if this is the case, I can help get the right patch to your kernel if need be.

Can you say exactly which patches are needed for the 2.6.8-rc2-love3 kernel?

Also, not being very familiar with applying patches, I'm still getting konfoozed with the terminology. When you say 'reverse' a patch, I'm assuming you mean to 'uninstall' a patch that has been applied already, correct?

Does the -R prompt from the above attempted patch mean to 'reverse' the patch instead of re-applying it?

As it is just a warning message what does it mean if everything is working...?

I have looked for a cfg file for splash_utils that includes a reference to libjpeg but can't find one... Could it be a path issue ???
and where would I change the reference to libjpeg to clear the error message ?

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I thought that 'default' was a directory (for some reason). Using rm implies that 'default' is a file?? If so, what is in this file? and where should it be located?

I'm a little unclear as to WHAT the file and directory structure of all this should look like. Can you/someone list what directories should exist, in the etc/splash path and what files are needed within each dir?

I thought that 'default' was a directory (for some reason). Using rm implies that 'default' is a file?? If so, what is in this file? and where should it be located?

I'm a little unclear as to WHAT the file and directory structure of all this should look like. Can you/someone list what directories should exist, in the etc/splash path and what files are needed within each dir?

btw...I'm trying to set this up for the emergence theme @1280x1024.

the "default" emergence theme does not have any other resolutions besides 1024x768. I have edited the how-to and added links to places to get themes. There is an emergence theme there, but it may be different than spocks?

/etc/splash/default should be a symbolic link, therefore no -r is needed.
it should link to the theme you want to use, for example i have this:

Code:

bash-2.05b$ ls /etc/splash
default emergence

where default is a symbolic link to emergence. I am not sure if this is necessary, but it makes it easier for me since I have not investigated changing and of the config files to point to a different theme name.

now the "emergence theme" is installed by emerge splashutils. It is setup correctly as far as file structure, if you want to use a different theme and resolution, you do this: (example shown is for a bootsplash theme copied over to run as a gensplash theme at 1280x1024)

I assume the 'default' part is what points to the default dir symlinked to my theme dir. I also just like starting in verbose mode.

NOW.

What I get is a blue OPAQUE screen that nearly fills the entire viewing area with white text giving me verbose boot info. I can see the edges of the theme .jpg behind this blue window though....so the theme *is* being found and thrown up on the screen...it's just being covered up.

Any ideas what this blue window is or how I can change it to be transparent?

the video=.......... section was put there manually.
In trying to eliminate the blue opaque screen, I changed the line to:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.8-rc2-love3 root=/dev/hda3 ro splash=verbose,theme:default

With that, I get the full size fonts, but no more blue screen section....but also NO emergance splash.

"You want verbose splash so you want to see the boot process messages right?"

Correct.

"If you are using the latest version of splashutils, verbose is chosen by default, therefore to get the silent boot image, you must have splash=silent in the grub line."

Ok...so I can just leave out the 'splash=" section. I think the same holds true for the 'theme=' setting. If it's not there, it defaults to 'default' which is symlinked to my actual theme.

EDIT:

Got things working. Took the shotgun approach and re-did everything. Also notifed that my grub initrd was 1280x1024. Set it all up for 1024 mode and just gave up trying to get the gensplash working @ 1280.